Windows 8.1 is Here!

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Hey everyone Windows 8.1 is out now you can download for free if you are running Windows 8, if you are running a later O.S you will have to wait till tomorrow and it will cost you 119.00 dollars so those of you running Windows 8 lucky dogs , for the rest of us MO MONEY!

Go to Windows Store you will find it there by the way it's 119.99 sorry about that if you already have Windows 8 it's free upgrade. no it's a new O.S! but like i said in previous post those of us running windows 7, vista or xp can download tomorrow but it will cost 119.99 for basic 8.1 or 199.99 for pro version!

No it is not an ISO, it does not auto-install I believe Microsoft has to verify that you have a genuine windows 8 o.s then you download, at the moment their servers are very slow due to all the people upgrading so be patient !

I can't say for sure about the files and folders , ALMonty is downloading it as we speak he will probably have more info soon. As far as stardock they already have support for windows 8.1 I do believe . Just remember this back up, back up, back up always just in case.

Quoting Neil Banfield, reply 13As long as you are running current versions of those two you should be fine.Cheers, that's good to know. As Win8.1 is supposed to bring back the Start button I thought it might conflict with Start8.

With the older Start8 (pre 1.17 I think) the Windows button would sit on top of ours. Later versions of Start8 corrected this.

I checked out the video and you can switch between start screen and desktop like 8.0 and the start button is there. How Start8 will react to that remains to be seen. Its still flatter than a pancake. lol

a trivial word of caution for those that are anal regarding their start screen tiles.

The color of the tiles in 8.1 is now based on the primary colors of the icon itself. You will have a mess of different colored tiles now and there isn't a dang thing you can do about it (unless you want to spend countless hours with OblyTile). Decor8 will NOT be able to fix this either.

Everything is up and running. Few changes I see so far. The word Computer in the start menu changed to This PC, added a couple more stupid apps.the app store is different. As for Start 8 I couldn't find a way to turn it off so I don't know what it looks like without it. I even tried to shut it off with the Task Manager and it's still there (flaw). I use WindowBlinds so it doesn't really matter. Using Iconpackager my live folders went to default and won't go back to the package icons. But all my stuff is still where I put it.

Everything is up and running. Few changes I see so far. The word Computer in the start menu changed to This PC, added a couple more stupid apps.the app store is different. As for Start 8 I couldn't find a way to turn it off so I don't know what it looks like without it. I even tried to shut it off with the Task Manager and it's still there (flaw). I use WindowBlinds so it doesn't really matter. Using Iconpackager my live folders went to default and won't go back to the package icons. But all my stuff is still where I put it.

You can right click on the This PC icon and rename it to whatever you want with no adverse effects.

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